The first walk across Lake Erie from Erie to Canada was reported to be in 1912, when a 19-year-old North East man crossed the frozen lake. "It had never been done before," the Erie Times-News said ...

When he visited Erie on June 3,1825, Gilbert du Motier, the Marquis de Lafayette, was regaled with accounts of another hero's role in winning a second war with England.

Reconnaissance walks during War of 1812 Daniel Dobbins and Commodore Jesse Elliott walked across the lake in the winter of 1813-14, according to Dobbins' recollections in a letter to Elliott ...

They stood together Wednesday behind the podium at the Buffalo History Museum, military interpreters entering their third year of celebrating the bicentennial of the War of 1812. Already, Guy ...